Tile
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Square tile. Grayish white ground, centered with slate blue figure of a boy in the Chinese manner. Figure faces the observer and carries two buckets which depend from the ends of a board behind his back. Margins filled with crude floral ornament in overglaze white. Examples of "bianco sopra bianco" technique.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1760
- Accession Number
- 1938-12-3
- Manufacturer
- Joseph Fowler Factory
- Artist
- Michael Edkins, English, 1734 - 1811
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- tiles
- Decorative Arts
- Tile
- Medium
- Tin-enamelled earthenware, overglaze slip.
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (laying flat): 12.5 x 12.5 cm (4 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
- made in
- Bristol, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-12-3
